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SK 79 NE HAXEY MAIN STREET
(north side)
Graiselound
14/118 Cumberworth Lodge and
screen wall adjoining to
north GV II Wrongly marked as Ferry Road on Ordnance Survey Map. House, now residential
home. Mid C18 with C19 alterations and rear addition. Brick, rendered to
front and sides, whitewashed throughout. Concrete tile roof to front, Welsh
slates to rear. Double-depth plan: original section L-shaped, with 2-room,
central entrance-hall west front, single-room wing to rear right and lower
range in angle: section to rear left infilled and raised in C19. 2 storeys,
3 bays; symmetrical. Chamfered plinth. Entrance has C19 flat-roofed Doric
porch with a pair of unicorn heads at angles, beneath a plain frieze and
moulded cornice attached to the wall. Pilasters flanking late C19 2-fold
half-glazed 6-panelled door beneath moulded lintel and overlight with margin
lights in contemporary panelled reveal. Large unequal tripartite sashes
with glazing bars to either side beneath hoodmoulds. First floor: central
unequal 20-pane sash flanked by unequal 24-pane sashes beneath similar
hoodmoulds. Coved cornice. Stone-coped gables with shaped kneelers. C19-
C20 rebuilt end stacks. Stone-coped screen wall ramped down to left. Right
return, facing street: three 24-pane flush sashes to ground floor, that to
centre obscured by C20 addition; first-floor C19 canted wooden oriel window
to front range, with wooden brackets, glazing bars, dentilled cornice and
hood; unequal 20-pane sash to rear range. Similar oriel to left return.
Rear: 3 low storeys, with part-glazed door to right of centre and unequal
sashes with glazing bars in flush wooden surrounds to each floor, stepped
and dentilled brick eaves cornice, hipped roof. Interior. Fine early-mid
C18 open-well staircase with ramped and wreathed corniced handrail,
alternating twist and column-on-vase balusters with square knops, column
newel posts, heavy twist foot-newel post with gadrooned capital, profiled
cheek-pieces, and fielded panelling to underside. Secondary staircase to
rear right has plain stick balusters and turned newels. Ground-floor left
room has early C19 pilastered grey marble chimney-piece flanked by early-mid
C18 alcoves with fielded-panel doors to lower sections, and fluted pilasters
above carrying heavy moulded cornice. Ground floor right has moulded dado
rail, wooden chimney-piece (perhaps inserted) with bolection moulding and
frieze with central panel bearing carved floral design. Rear right has
early C19 carved wooden chimney-piece with reeded pilasters and frieze,
festoons and egg-and-dart cornice; pair of inserted scagliola brown marble
columns with ornate Corinthian capitals. Moulded cornices to first floor.
4- and 6-fielded-panel doors with H and L hinges in architraves and fielded-
panel reveals.
Listing NGR: SK7732998754
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